July 17, 2007


Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.

Mark Twain

Leaves
Face soft
As woman's touch
Yet doesn't cost you
Near as much
Burma Shave 1952



Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.

--Thomas L. Masson, (1866--1934), writer

Leonardo da Vinci
1452 - 1519
Italian Genius

Leonardo was one of the greatest artists of the Italian Renaissance and the greatest experimental scientist of his age. Leonardo was a painter, sculptor, architect, musician and art critic who displayed genius in almost all the arts and sciences.

He was born in Vinci, Italy. About 1470 he entered the studio of Andrea del Verrocchio, and in 1482 settled in Milan, where he painted his 'Last Supper'. In 1500 he entered the service of Cesare Borgia in Florence as architect and engineer, and with Michelangelo decorated the Sala del Consiglio in the Palazzo della Signoria with historical compositions. Soon after he completed his most celebrated painting, 'Mona Lisa'.

His studies of anatomy and mechanical devices show that he had a knowledge far beyond his own time. His notebooks contain original remarks on most of the sciences, including biology, physiology, hydrodynamics, and aeronautics. HyperHistory On Line


A single question can be more influential than a thousand statements.

Bo Bennett

PRESIDENTIAL TRIVA
Mrs. Adams would hang her laundry in the East Room to dry.

John Adams 1897-1901

I saw a man in white, he looked quite a sight. He was not old, but he stood in the cold. And when he felt the sun he started to run. Who could he be? Please answer me.

Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.


Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

“Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.”

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